Japanese beetles

NewEnglandFarmer · Jul 19, 2014

So far this year they have completely ruined my young cherry tree. They've put about a thousand holes in every leave while turning each one brown. Will the tree come back next year or should I just rip it out now?
Now they are starting in on my apple tree. Last nigjt i shook the tree and it was like it was raining beetles. Anyone know of a home remedy spray I can do? I once heard baking soda and water??
My grape vines have a few but that is typical. I don't want to go crazy with chemicals, not because I'm ones if those weenie green people but because my 2 year old son walks around the property snacking on the garden and growing fruit.

Nick167 · Jul 19, 2014

There is traps you can hag in the tree and they work well

J.Wondergem · Jul 19, 2014

My Dad always said use two rocks. I use sevin in the garden.

Don-Wi · Jul 19, 2014

I sprayed dish soap and water on my box elder tree when it was infested with box elder beetles. Worked good. The way it was explained to me was that the suds suffocated the insects and they died. I just mixed a heavier concentration just to be sure but after a little while I had a pile of them all around the trunk.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Jiles · Jul 19, 2014

I used Ortho and Spectracide over a period of several days last year. Both the pesticides were labeled to kill JB, even had a picture of one on the container.
I had virtually "O" kill!
Was at the co-op and the lady recommended Sevin concentrate. When I got home, I sprayed every plant that they were on and next day --NO LIVE BEETLES, with hundreds dead on the ground.
That was proof enough to me that Ortho and Spectracide were a huge waste of money and time.
Ohhhh---Looked up top killing ingredient for JB and it was listed on Sevin but not listed in Ortho or Spectracide!!!!

NNP · Jul 19, 2014

I spray my young trees with Sevin during bad bug years.
Don't know how many it actually kills, but it usually tells them to go someplace else.....

HillsofTn · Jul 19, 2014

My sister had a few JBs in her garden a few years ago. She bought the traps and, sure enough, she filled the traps full of bugs. She also attracted all the JBs in that part of the rural area and her entire garden was covered with them.

Moral of the story: Kill the ones you have with liquid sevin a couple of times and there usually won"t be anymore that season. Use traps and you will have both your JBs AND all of the ones from the neighbors, too!

parisspringstom · Jul 19, 2014

I have killed them with sevin. Gives you some residual protection. Probably would not let the young one eat fruit without washing it off for a couple of weeks.

SparepartsTN · Jul 19, 2014

I've hung the bag traps and filled them also. But I hang three or four at a time at a distance of 100 to 150 feet away surrounding the garden, that catches them coming in, the more dead this year the less next year.

ohiojim · Jul 20, 2014

those beetle traps work great, get a couple of them

C. Amick · Jul 20, 2014

Get you some guinea fowl. They will eat them.

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